Gaston Lachaise (American/French, 1882–1935)
This lot is offered without reserve. PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF WILLIAM KELLY SIMPSON (Lots 270-278)
Gaston Lachaise (American/French, 1882–1935)

Seated Male Nude with Drapery; together with Male Nude with Raised Hands (recto and verso)

細節
Gaston Lachaise (American/French, 1882–1935)
Seated Male Nude with Drapery; together with Male Nude with Raised Hands (recto and verso)
signed 'G Lachaise' (lower right); the companion signed with initials 'GL' (lower right) and signed again 'G Lachaise' (on the reverse)
pencil and gouache on paper; the companion pencil and ink on paper, double-sided
23 ¼ x 17 7/8 in. (59.1 x 45.4 cm.); the companion 17 x 11 ¼ in. (43.2 x 28.6 cm.)
(2)The first executed circa 1932. The companion executed circa 1929.
來源
(the first work) Estate of the artist.
Robert Isaacson, NY.
Private Collection, NY.
with Joshua Strychalski, 1987.
(the companion work) Isabel Lachaise (the artist’s widow).
with M. Knoedler & Co., New York, from the above, 1950.
Vincent Connolly, New York, from the above, 1950.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 15 May 1980, lot 61.
注意事項
This lot is offered without reserve.

拍品專文

In Lachaise’s drawings of a standing male nude made on each side of the present sheet, the man’s upraised arms signify his elevated aspirations. For the drawing on the verso, Lachaise sketched the man in pencil, then strengthened the lines with pen and ink, stressing some of the figure’s comparatively horizontal shapes. On the recto, he drew the same image in reverse in pencil, and afterward, while reinforcing it in pen and ink, he repositioned the man’s proper left foot to accentuate the body’s upward movement, and thus highlight the man’s eloquent gestures.

Gaston Lachaise’s drawing of an Adonis-like nude displaying himself for our appreciation very closely compares in terms of both imagery and style with Lachaise’s drawing of a seated male nude owned by the Princeton University Art Museum (accession no. x1984-110; https://artmuseum.princeton.edu/collections/objects/15275).These confidently executed drawings were probably made at about the same time, and in both, the broad-chested, slender-hipped man—who is seated on a bed or chaise longue with one leg tucked beneath himself while he holds a swag of drapery--represents a befitting counterpart of the self-assured, seductive Woman often seen in Lachaise’s art.

We are grateful to Virginia Budny, author of the forthcoming catalogue raisonné sponsored by the Lachaise Foundation, for her assistance in preparing the catalogue entry for this work.

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